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Proof that Google is Evil

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Roll_Call_Google_eager_to_work_0914.html

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Old 09-14-2006, 01:21 PM
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Microsoft ignored politics for several years. Then the government came after them with an anti-trust suit.

Do you think if they had been lining pockets all along they would have had the same troubles?

Google is big enough now that they must start playing the influence game or be a target for some government department's regulators.

It's a shame, but that's the way it works these days.
Old 09-14-2006, 01:28 PM
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another way to avoid giving the NSA your personal information

give the administration$$$$
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Old 09-14-2006, 01:44 PM
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report Tory Newmyer and Paul Kane for Roll Call. "The company is filing paperwork today to open its first-ever political action committee, and later this month, it will make an endangered GOP incumbent the beneficiary of its first-ever Washington fundraiser."
From the other parts of the short partial article I don't see where they are playing both sides of the fence.

They have to kiss up to the Dem's too, that's how the game is played, right?
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Old 09-15-2006, 12:39 AM
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Google is actually run from Space by an alien computer, something like Voyager.

The marsians are making a mint and soon will be taking over the world
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Old 09-15-2006, 03:49 AM
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another way to avoid giving the NSA your personal information

give the administration$$$$

What are you talking about. Google is the NSA - they needed a way to better fund themselves and what better way to find out who is looking at what info

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Old 09-15-2006, 05:02 AM
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Ahhh....the good old days when you only had to pay off one party...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060913/cm_usatoday/whyistartedtheproject
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Old 09-15-2006, 05:27 AM
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Google is actually run from Space by an alien computer, something like Voyager.
You mean V'ger, right?

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Old 09-15-2006, 07:29 AM
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Google is great, obviously, for getting information on any topic.

It is not so great for personal privacy, since all too often personal information gets posted there under your name--and you wonder who gave them permission to do that.

What I don't like is the so-called white pages--where your name and address, and sometimes phone number are frequently posted. There are a half dozen of these sites. You can get your name removed on most of them by on-line request--which is a good idea, since this is the way a lot of credit cards are stolen on-line. Anyone with access to your credit card number and name can misuse your credit card without actually having it if they get your address and phone number from the white pages.

My advice is to check the white page sites, and remove your address if it's posted.

Another warning: don't use your credit card on an unsecured website (lock on it at the bottom.)
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You mean V'ger, right?

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Old 09-15-2006, 11:37 AM
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Google is actually run from Space by an alien computer, something like Voyager.

The Martians are making a mint and soon will be taking over the world
IMHO they can't get here fast enough, the humans have certainly made a mess of the planet!

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